Tag: Bobby Jones

History-making Lee Elder to be Honored at Pebble Beach, 2019 Lee Elder is about to make history…again. He was the first African-American golfer to play in the Masters, and the first to play in the Ryder Cup. He represented a great presence in the pioneering days of non-white golfers in the United States, with Charlie …

Golf Hard To Portray On Screen Real or Not, Difficult to Get It Right I recall freaking out at a movie on Charlie Chaplin in which he plays the violin. No one on the project seemed to notice that he was playing it backward – left-handed, fine, but some important adjustments were totally wrong, like …

Jordan Spieth, The Greatest? For How Long? It has been several decades since a young Muhammad Ali screamed “I am the greatest!” and a lot of other prophesies at the world press. We know from ancient history what a dangerous habit that is, to declare one’s self the greatest before the fact, but funny thing …

Here We Go Again – Another Grand Slam? The golf year has reached its halfway point, and as usual, did not disappoint. We even have a little bit of the elixir that comes around every few years, but not so much lately – the expectation that someone within the PGA field can win golf’s …

Alexa Stirling and Alexa Pano One of the oversights we commit when we’re young (at least, I did), is to feel as though our era is the universe. It invented everything, is the high point of everything, and we’re part of it. When I was able to get across to a class that we are …

The Valspar Championship has secured its future at Innisbrook Resort with a title sponsorship extension through 2025. The paint company's deal with the PGA Tour had been set to expire after the 2020 tournament.